Speaking at a National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) briefing, Dr Tony Holohan said for those who wished to go out with their children, “dining outdoors is still possible”.
The Government is currently pushing through legislation which would allow parents to bring their unvaccinated children for indoor dining.Speaking this evening, Dr Tony Holohan said that even though it is “possible” for unvaccinated children to be brought indoors, that Delta transmission can still happen in children.
“For now, to parents of young children- it’s safer not to bring your children in to indoor dining and other facilities, even though those kinds of things would be possible,” Dr Holohan said.
He said that parents can either dine outdoors with their children or wait until more people are vaccinated.“If you’re a parent of young children and you’re anxious to go out for a meal its better to do that outdoors rather than indoors or to put that off until such a point as where we believe we’ve gotten to a higher point of population vaccination,”